Automobile door-bumper.



L. W. WBGENKA. AUTOMOBILE DOOR BUMPER. APPLICATION mm mm: 15, m4.

1 ,1 27,329, Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

spring bumper plate, and Fig. 4 is a detail UNITED STATES PrhTENT OFFICE.

LODGE W. WEGEJdKA OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA.

AUTOMOBILE DOOR-BUMPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

I-atented Feb. 2,1915.

Application filed June 15. 1914. Serial No. 845.219.

'improvefnents in automobile doors and more particularly to metallic bumpers therefor and resides in the provision of such a device that may be readily attached to the door jamb and will operate in a reliable manner to cushion the impact of closing the door so that injury thereto or to the latch is prevented.

An object of importance is to provide ametallic spring bumper that'is of simple construction. capable of being readily sttached and detached, is durable and not apt to become broken or deranged as is the case with the ordinary bumper ordinarily used and is inexpensive to manufacture.

The above and additional objects are accomplished by such means as are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. described in the following specification and then more particularly pointed out as claimed.

With reference to the drawings, wherein I have illustrated the preferred embodiment of my invention as it is reduced to practice, and throughout the several views of which similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts: Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved spring bumper, Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing the bumper attached to the jainb of a door, Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the perspective view of the bumper holding plate.

Referring to the drawings by characters of reference; A designates the jamb of an automobile door to which my improved bumper is to be attached. in such position as will correspond with that in which the ordinary bumpers are usually placed.

Mounted upon one angular face portion of the door jamb A is a rectangular body or spring holding plate 1, that is formed of some suitable preferably sheet metal, that is bent centrally of its ends to provide an inverted V-shaped transverse projection 2 for a purpose to be later more fully described. I

Openings 3 are formed adjacent to the ends of the plate 1 and receive screws ft or other suitable fastening elements that are turned or inserted in the jamb A to secure the plate, said plate being secured in a vertical position so that the V-shaped projection 2 is extended outwardly from the door jamb.

A rectangular tongue 5 is formed integral with one end, preferably the lower end of the plate 1 on one side thereof and is bent to lie over the adjacent end of the plate in spaced parallel relation thereto and pr0- vided with .an opening 6 therein which alines with the opening 3 in the adjacent end through which one of the screws or other suitable fastening element 4 is inserted. This plate 1 and corresponding parts is made relatively flat and one side edge and the free end edge of the tongue are disposed flush with the corresponding edges of the adjacent end of the plate 1.

Mounted upon the spring holding plate 1 is a spring bumper plate designated 7 as an entirety that is preferably rectangular and formed of some suitable spring metal. This plate 7 is approximately the same length and width as the plate 1 and is bent to provide an approximately U-shaped door engaging projection 8 that consists of outwardly and inwardly inclined side portions 9 and a flat portion 10 which joins the portions 9 with each other which is formed integral therewith. The door engaging portion 8 is centrally of the ends of the plate 7 and in such manner that the V-shaped projection 2 is received therein and normally spaced therefrom as clearly shown in Fig. 2 'n the drawings.

A longitudinal slot 1]. is formed in the lower end of the plate 7 and slidably re ceives the fastening element 4 so that the plate is permitted to move relative to the plate 1. An opening 12 is formed in the other end of the plate 7 and receives the other fastening element l which is inserted through the opening 3 in the corresponding end of the plate 1. The end of the plate 7 that is provided with the longitudinal slot ments 4 may be inserted therethrough and into the 6001' 3amb.

In practice the device 15 secured in verticalposition as illustrated clear-l3, in Fig.

2- in the drawings upon the dour jiizizh A and in such :1 position. that upon the ales-- ing ef the deem not shown the deer eiimgmg' portion 8 will first engage the deer its fiat portion 10 and give owing to the spring action of the plate 7. The give permitted through the medium of the lOt1 ltudinal slot 11 which allows the plate l1. slide relative to the plat .1.

It will be readily that l have pin vided a simple, inexpensive and elleetive door bumper that is extremely durable and Will provide the desired cushioning action in a reliable manner. Should the (leer, net shown, he closed with great farce and the spring plate 8 give a great deal. the V shaped project-ion 2 on i as a stop and in we e g the inner face of the flattened pert l hf the door engaging member or portion In practice, I have leuri l. that the form of my invention, illustrated in the drawings and referred to in the there descrip tion, the preferred embed?:iient is the mbst efilcient and p' yet realizing that; the eeiiditiens tiiieurrent with the adeptioii 05' my (l ee will nee eril vary, I desire to emphasize the fact that various miner. changes in details of eoiistruetion, proportion and errengerrient ef parts may be resorted t0, Whtzi u. i, Witheuts eerifieing any of the atlventtgv. at my inven' limit, as set; forth.

Whatis elziiiiied isz A bumper of the chm .ictrr (l .riberl 0011- si ting of it phi to be secured upuu :1. 1001: jinn end having an overlying tongue formed integral with one end ti..-

reef and being armrtured, said plate being zipertured in the end ztljacent t0 the tengiie and harving its aperture alined with the in iertiire in the. ton 'ue, an outwardly ending up prexima ely Vshaped pm r feriiied iii-- teruielliate of the en 7 Le. L, spring plate having an; mm 7 ailing pagejeetion formed mire-meme .s eels by bending'suid plate outwurfll v',sli able the first plate and having 21 i slot in (me end i'e terizig ing in the toiigxie 11ml LODtiE VJ. VJ

:5. ill 1K5 Witnesses STANLEE M. viewings, BERT E. KLYsz. 

